On Sat, 11 May 2019 09:18:23 +0100, mm0fmf  declaimed the
following:

>Or you could read the Debian explanation of ARM ports as Raspbian is
>built on Debian.
>
>https://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
>
>It explains it all.

 It clarifies nothing with regards to Raspbian. It only indicates that
the debian.org provided ports are armhf for v7 architecture, and armel for
older, along with a 64-bit build.

"""
Other ports to ARM hardware exist / have existed in and around Debian - see
the wiki for more links and an overview.
"""

 Raspbian could be based upon the sources of any of the debian.org
ports, but using a different set of compiler options. All of my R-Pis are
3B and 3B+ versions. Since Raspbian (via NOOBS) is a single image, is it
armel, or armhf? And if it is armel, why does apt-get update retrieve
indexes for armhf packages?

 Now, this https://wiki.debian.org/ArmPorts DOES answer the question...

"""
There are or have-been at least two unofficial ports outside the Debian
infrastructure.

    Raspbian - Uses the hard-float version of the "new" ABI (EABI) like
Debian armhf but targets v6 rather than v7. Currently tracks Debian jessie
and stretch. Primarily but not exclusively targeted at the Raspberry Pi.
GNU Triplet: arm-linux-gnueabihf
"""

 So... Raspbian is not a formal debian.org port, and is built with
different options from Debian sources.



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